Sentences with phrase «buddy cop film»

A very predictable buddy cop film that just lacks enough humor.

It's anything but a lazy cash grab, taking everything you know about buddy cop films and turning it on its head.

The action involves a lot of loud gunfire and the breaking of glass, reminiscent somewhat of buddy cop films from the 1980s, a la 48 Hours and the many that followed it, including the Shane Black - scripted Lethal Weapon.

Netflix releases a second trailer for Bright, the David Ayer directed fantasy buddy cop film starring Will Smith and Joel Edgerton.

But director Paul Feig, who found critical and box office acclaim with his female driven 2011 comedy «Bridesmaids,» daringly put in the effort to make the first female buddy cop film with «The Heat.»

The pursuit of laughs, friendship and criminals in action crime buddy cop films has always been a thriving success with male characters, from ’21 Jump Street» to «Die Hard» to «End of Watch.»

It's no secret that buddy cop films largely depend on the chemistry of the leads and not much else.

WHY: It's hard to believe that Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson were originally tapped to play the two leads in this throwback to late 80s and early 90s buddy cop films, because while a lot of the dialogue sounds like it was written with the «Wedding Crashers» duo in mind, they're not exactly convincing action stars.

The 1987 Richard Donner film, easily the best buddy cop film made (before and since), was written by Shane Black.

With Hot Fuzz, he takes the action - packed buddy cop films and does it again.

WHY: Shane Black is to buddy cop films what Raymond Chandler is to hard - boiled crime novels, and his latest movie, the retro detective noir «The Nice Guys,» is arguably his best entry in the genre since redefining the buddy cop formula three decades earlier with «Lethal Weapon.»

I saw a couple good Elliot Gould buddy cop films recently.

Rock plays a shade of himself; a quasi-washed-up comedic actor famed as the title role in the critically flattened Hammy the Bear buddy cop films.

Mandy sat down with Eric to talk exorcisms, remaking buddy cop film «48 Hours» with Joel McHale (a wishlist), and how listening to The Doors will not be the same after seeing this film.

However, it's somewhat unusual for a buddy cop film to make these tropes textual, not as meta - commentary but solely to be upfront about going through the motions of «story» and «character development.»

Because he's written a buddy cop film in the past that must be what this would end up like?

The spoof team behind Shaun of the Dead are at again, this time with a creative take on crime and buddy cop films.

When Humphrey Bogart unexpectedly joined forces with Claude Rains at the end of Casablanca, the seeds of the buddy cop film were sewn.

Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg are re-teaming for a comedy called Daddy's Home.The actors previously starred in buddy cop film The Other Guys in...

The Guard finds McDonagh riffing on the buddy cop film, but it's more O Brother, Where Art Thou?